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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
AUG-USTA. QA.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1870
WHAT OF THE NIGHT ?
The extreme wing of the Radical party
recognizes the necessity of perpetual aggres
sion in order that its designs may be con
summated. So far, the success of ultra
Radicalism has been almost unimpeded,
and, since the forced and fraudulent passage
of the XVth Amendment, it would seem
that the future had no obstacles worth the
mention, and that the people have no spirit
of revolt which can not be easily suppress
ed. That the leaders of the dominant
faction will continue to scheme against the
South, even after Reconstruction shall have
been declared complete, there can be no
doubt. Having trampled upon this sec
tion, they will spare no effort to maintain
their degrading power. The first of a series
of new modes of torture is plainly indi
cated by “ Senator ” Abbott’s resolution
for the establishment of a “ National Po
lice ” —the gendarmerie of Republican des
potism. State organizations known as
“ loyal militia” are found to be inadequate.
Radicalism can not be upheld by such mum
meries. But as carpet-baggers, scalawags
and knaves in general must have some
props which promise to stand, in place of
local militia we are to have a “ National
Police.”
Mr. Abbott based his resolution upon
the alleged prevalence of crime in the
Bouth. Even as the false-hearted adven*
turer presented his charge, the South was
the most peaceable country on the face of
the earth, and the North, New York
especially, the most bloody and criminal.
Why must “ National Police ” prowl over
Georgia, for example, and let New York
and her shamble go scot free? At this
verv moment, the journals of New York,
without distinction as to politics, are
blatant with cries for lynch law, and not a
few of them are lauding, under a different
name, a projected Ku Kluxism of the
most bitter character and such as the South
has never known save in the imagination
of the spies and liars especially sent here
for the concoction of slanderous romance.
Well, the carpet-baggers may organize
their “ National Police” and arm them too;
but, though such contrivances have a
temporary good fortune, they shall be
Whelmed in destruction at last.
While the portents of fresh calamity and
outrage blacken the political horizon, there
are not wanting streaks of light amid the
gloom, to hint of the dawning of a better
and brighter day. Among the more cheer
ing indications, it has become a matter of
note that many journals, hitherto blind
partisans of Butler and Sumner, are be
ginning to scourge the vindictive measures
propagated by this precious couple aud
their colleagues. The tone of these papers
has wonderfully changed. The Washing
ton County Post (Rad.) thus indicates what
Is smouldering in the popular heart:
“ Outside of the halls of Congress there
“ is not even a faction of the Republican
“ party that justifies Sumner’s course.—
“ Even so decided a Radical as Greeley de
“ nounces it. Everybody is sick of this
“ eternal reconstruction. The whole coun
“ try wants peace. The business of the
“ country, ground down by the burden of
taxation, the masses smarting under an
“ unjust tariff, demand relief and will have
“ it. The people have waited patiently and
“ borne Jong with the negro, but now they
“ are considering their own rights, and it
“ will go ill with the Republican party if
“ the present session of Congress is squan
“ dered in fighting over again this dead
“ question. The old cry of ‘ loyalty ’ rouses
“no emotion in tbe popular heart. We
“ have fought the last campaign on this
“ rallying cry. We must have an adjust
“ meat of this tariff, a reduction of tax
“ ation and retrenchment in public ex
“ penscs. The kind of reconstruction that
“ is needed now is a reconstruction of the
“ ultra members of the party.”
In addition to this, we learn that many
of the Radicals in Congress are inclined to
‘pause before making another step in the
precipitation of civil revolution. The negro
has everything his most sanguine admirer
can demand, except social equality, and
Wenjdell Phillips’ bounty of one-seventh
of the National wealth. When one or both
of these demands shall have been made the
policy of Radicalism, as a parly, no prophet
need come from the grave to predict the
inevitable result. The Extremists know
that it will be death for them to halt; the
“ Conservatives ” believe that it will be
damnation as well as death for them to
proceed one step farther. That is the di
lemma. Thank God, they have, reached it
at last. Now let them plunge on or hesi
tate, if they dare. Through the negro un
doubtedly all this vile Radical misrule
has been built up, and so long as tbe
Northern people are mad on the sub
ject it may continue to blight.and op
press. £ut it is not in human nature
that this frenzy shall last much longer
even among the most stupid and fanatical;
and when reason begins to reassert itself,
let Sambo beware and his manipulators
also. Let the South be patient and true.
Her woes may be multiplied and her hu
miliations augmented; but she shall have
her day of vengeance and compensation.
Let the two factious of Raiiealism tear
themselves to pieces, as they certainly will
in the end. Let us not debase ourselves by
an alliance with either. With extreme Rad
icals we cannot be monstrous enough to
affiliate. Os cunning Conservative Repub
licans we should beware. Both desire our
ruin and both must be shunned as the lep
rosy or plague. Os the two, we sincerely
believe the latter element to be the more dan
gerous. Leaders of this faction openly pro
claim, under the pretense of saving the
State, that they labor to keep their party
from death and condemnation. Demo
crats in Georgia may amuse themselves
with the idea that they are using Bryant
& Cos., but the greater probability is that
Bbyant & Cos. are using them in order to
accomplish the salvation and reorganiza
tion of a Republican party here which will
be very hard to annihilate. We despise
Bullock, but we do not love Bryant. If
we got rid of the party of the one, we would
be saddled with the party of the other, just
as we exchanged Pope for Aleade. Let
them tight their battles among themselves.
Let Democrats stand aloof from both.
When the signal shall have been given to
send Radicalism howling from Georgia,
we trust that Bullock will not make bet
ter time in his flight to Albion than Bryant
in the stampede for Skowhegan.
Wonderful. Since Terry’s Ready
Relief machine at Atlanta has passed the
XVth Amendment, Georgia is now spoken
of in Radical quarters as a radiantly loyal
State. A few weeks ago she was repre
sented as an infidel territory aud a field of
(flood. Terry's discretion works wonders.
White Slaves. —Miss Jennie Collins
explains why the groans of 50,000 New
England factory girls go unheard and un
heeded, thus :
“in consequence of the best Lien and
women being engaged in the slavery ques
tion the groans from the factories were
not heard. Probably they would not be
heard to-day were it not for the fact that,
before the war, workingworaen in the city
of Boston could get board for $2 25 per
week. Now they are compelled to pay $6,
and oftentimes more. As the corporations
have boarding houses for their operatives,
poverty has driven large numbers of them
pack to those living tombs.”
Sorry for you, girls. But get married, If
vou can, and bripg forth men who love
negroes less and white people more.
A Good Example. —Speaking of the
bishops at the Ecumenical Council, the
Catholic Mirror says:
“The fathers discuss the questions
“ brought; before them to elucidate pro
“ blems by sound and calm argument, and
“ there is not among the seven hundred
“ and odd members of the Council a man
“ foolish enough to get up and make an ex
“ tempore exhibition of his vanity by speak
ing for mere buncombe.”
The enemies of the Council may find fault
with many things, but would not every
lover of truth be delighted to have this
paragraph written of the American Con
gress—that perfidious and buncombe den
of thieves ? We mean “ loyalists.”
Ouk Satraps. —A distinguished Major
General of the United States Army told
the editor of the Cqlurabus Sun that the
satraps commanding in the South were,
purposely selected because of their hatred
of our people. .
We did not have any Major General to
give us similar information, but we have
ever regarded them as natural tyrants and
willing tools, upon whom “soft soap”
would be worse than wasted.
The Mormons — A Mr. Cullum has in
troduced a bill in Congress to suppress the
Mormons. They are to be treated as outlaws.
Every one practicing polygamy, will be
fined SI,OOO, and imprisoned in the peniten
tiary not exceeding five years. The United
States army may be called upon to enforce
this law.
When Cullum gets through with the
Mormons, let him invade Massachusetts
aud extripate free love and foeticide.
A Change. —Demonstrating how demor
alized the United States navy has become,
the World sa'ys Vattel, Wheaton and
Kent are thrown to the dogs, and Mrs.
Stowe and Mrs. Henry Wood are prime
favorites.
Queer. — The Atlanta Nm Era sums up
the complexion of the Georgia Press as K.
K., Democrat, and Bryan T-Democrat.—
To the Macon Telegraph and Messenger it
gives no designation at all. How is this ?
A John Bull Journal. —Nearly all of
the editors of the New York Times are Eng
lishmen.
[From the New York Day Book.
Shall the Democrats Leave Congress in
a Body 1
A telegram says that the Democratic
members of some of the Congressional Com
mittees have had a caucus to discuss the
policy of resigning their membership on
such committees, on the ground that they
are not only deprived of being of the least
service to the country by the unfairness of
. the majority, but that they are subjected
to constant insults. Now, the whole coun
try knows this charge to be entirely true ;
arid it lias for a long time astonished us
that any Democrat who sufficiently respects
himself should consent to be the foot-stool
of such a set of superhuman scoundrels.—
Their presence on such committees gives
an odor of official importance to the ma
jority reports, which they would not other
wise possess. Better that they should go
forth to the country naked as the secret
schemings of the Mongrel conspirators in
Congress. And all that can be said of the
wisdom of Democrats refusing to act on
such committees can be uttered with vastly
greater force in favor of the retirement of
every Democratic member from the House
of Congress. In the first place, they are
not of the slightest use there. The infernal
majority are not mitigated nor softened in
the slightest degree by anything the Demo
cratic members can say or do. Indeed, the
Mougrel majority are rather kept together,
and consolidated in their criminal course,
by the opposition which the Democrats try
to make 1o them. Thieves are always kept
from falling out with each other by the
presence of honest men. The Mongrel mem
bers are such a set of rascals that they
would very soon get to pulling each
other’s hair, and unmaskiug each other’s
villainy, if left entirely to themselves,
without the presence of a political op
ponent. If the Democrats should resign
in a body and go home, the actiou of
Congress would be stripped of every
show of legality. Let them publish a
calm address to the people, setting forth
the fact that they are so stripped of all the
rights of minorities that they can not be of
the slightest service to the country in such
a body, aud that it must be apparent that
it is best to throw the whole responsibility
upon the shoulders of the conspirators.
While this patriotic act on the part of the
Democratic members’ would startle and
arouse all the thoughtful masses of the
people to a realizing sense of the enormity
of the crimes of Congress, it would leave
that pendent body to the speedy fate of the
“ Kilkenny cats.” Instead of watching
the Democrats, they would fall to devour
ing each other with a ferocity which be
longs to such unprincipled scoundrels.
How can a Democrat who has been used to
the society of gentlemen, and who possess
es an ordinary amount of self-respect, sit in
such a body ? The foul Mongrel papers all
over the country are in the habit of de
scribing the general stampede of the Mon
grel mem bet's whenever a Democrat at
tempts to speak—or, if they do not leave
the hall, they only remain to laugh, and
sneer, and spit their venom. No Democrat
can speak in this Congress without being
insulted by the ferocious majority. How can
a gentleman who respects himself remain
in such a body ? If the good of his country
demanded the sacrifice, he would, we grant,
be cornpielled to endure the humiliation ;
but, as we have shown, it does not. On
the other hand, it would be best for the
country to leave the whole responsibility
with the godless party which assumes it.
Fling the question to the people, and it will
be the last of such a party for a thousand
years to come. Perhaps it will be answer
ed that the question was flung to the people
at the last Presidential election. But this
is not true. No question was flung naked
to the people, except the one of the spoils
of office. Democrats fought a weak and
foolish defensive battle. That was a sight
to make the gods weep and devils rejoice
to see honest men fighting a poor, defensive
battle against thieves and knaves of every
description. The same thing is going on
every day in Congress. With hands and
feet tied, and their mouths gagged, the
Democratic members sit there a helpless
target for the blazing majority—and that,
too, a majority procured and kept up by
the most impudent and shameless frauds
the world ever saw. If this insulted aud
spit-upon minority would go out of such a
body, and then submit the question of their
re-election to the people of their districts,
every one of them would be re-elected, and
the discussion of the canvass would bring,
for the first time, the enormity of Con
gressional despotism squarely before the
face aud eyes of the people. We are fully
impressed with the ultimate good which
accomplished by the Democratic
mem tiers leaving the fraudulent, one-sided,
and illegal pest-hole iu a body. But if
they will remain, for God’s sake let them
show the pluck and indignation becoming
men of honor. Let them use words like
sledge hammers to break in pieces the hor
rid imag;es of Mongrel legislation. Let
them fling back scorn for insult, contempt
for threats, and words of wrath which shall
flay the backs of the sneering scoundrels,
until, taught some good manners from
terror, they shall be compelled to respect
the presence of an honest minority.
(■From tbe Pall Mall Gazette.
Government by Negroes.
A NEW VIEW OF RADICAL TACTICS —MAKING
UP FOR ABSTINENCE FROM BLOODSHED.
* * * Except in the case of the United
States, there has been great uniformity in
the history of the suppression of rebellion
in modern times. First, there has been
severe and often sanguinary punishment
inflicted on the chiefs of the revolt; then
has succeeded a period during which the
successful empire has enforced strict obe
dience to itself from its subjugated depen
dency ; aud-finally has come a strong de
sire, growing sometimes out of policy,
sometimes out of a sense of justice, and
sometimes out of mere emotion, to win its
affections, or, at all events, its voluntary
acquiescene in. accomplished facts. Eng
land is just at present feeling an almost
passionate wish to be reconciled to Ireland,
and to be beloved by the natives of India;
Austria has done her best to come to terms
with Hungary, and there are signs'.that the
sufferings of Poland are beginning to cause
discomfort aud compunction even in Rus-
sia. The United States seem destined to
an experience of a different kind. On the
morrow of the conquest their treatmeM of
the Southern leaders was marked by a gen
tleness Which will always be remembered to
their honor. But in the next stage of their
relations with the South the necessity for
combining despotic rule with something
like the forms of local self-government forced
them to adopt a policy which has more
than made up for their abstinence from
bloodshed. Nobody whose intelligence has
not been impaired by the habit of repeat
ing formulas about universal suffrage can
doubt that the punishment inflicted on
the Southern whites is far the severest
which one community has ever inflicted on
another. England governed Ireland through
a minority which tbe mass of the Celtic
population, however it might hate, never
dreamed of despising; the United States
rule the South through a majority of ne
groes, contempt for whom was almost a
religion with the planter before the attempt
at secession. We are not considering
whether the punishment was deserved, or
whether the Northern States could possi
bly help inflicting it; we merely say that,
after the capacity of the negro for improve
ment has been rated as highly as possible,
and after all possible deductions have been
made from the credibility of the stories
pmblished by the Democratic press, the fact
remains that government of white men by
colored ex-slaves is the acutest form of
moral torture which has ever been applied
to a community. llovv unfortunate it has
been that the punishment of the South has
taken this shape the United States are not
likely to feel until the time comes (and it
will certainly come) when the people of
the North will be animated with the
strongest wish to be reconciled to even
the most obstinate zealots of secession.
We should be sorry to lay down that
the United States would have done well to
shed blood like water in the first moments
of triumph if only they could have devised
some less degrading contrivance for the
provisional government of the South. Yet
it is quite certain that bloodshed is easily
forgotten; personal outrages with the
greatest difficulty. The Hungarian nobles
appear to have forgiven the Emperor Fran
cis Joseph for his wholesale executions of
their brethren ; but nobody can fail to see
that the “ irreconcilability” of some of the
most emminent of French politicians is
greatly due to recollections of the persoual
dishonor to which they were subjected on
the memorabie morning of the coup d'etat.
At the preseht moment we are well aware
that nothing seems less important to the
great majority of the Northern people than
that the experiment whicli they are trying
iu the South causes excessive discomfort
to a parcel of conquered rebels; but they
will probably hereafter view this experi
ment with other eyes when there comes the
inevitable waking to sympathy and pity,
and when, much about the same time, it
appears that the negroes, who are the in
struments of punishment, have become not
only a Southern, but a Northern power,
weighing heavily in the scale whenever a
national decision has to be taken.
The Destructives in a Ferment.
THEIR CONTEMPLATED PLAN OF ACTION.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Savan
nah Republican writes :
Angier’s news from Washington was a
terrible blow to the Bullock party. As he
tells it, Grant and both the Shermaus,
Senators Edmunds, Trumbull, Carpenter
and others assured him that under their
construction of the reconstruction act all
was accomplished when the negroes were
reseated, and the ineligible Democrats dis
placed—that the substitute-doctrine was
not in the bill—that all the acts done, or
elections had, or officers appointed and con
firmed, before the blacks were unseated,
would be held good, and that upon a com
pliance with the law and the adoption of
the Fifteenth Amendment, Messrs. Ilill and.
Miller would be admitted to their seats in
the Senate.
When this news got abroad, the swearing
was “ tremendous,” and Grant and Sherman
and the Senators named were charged with
falsehood, double dealing and almost all
other crimes by the extreme Radicals.
The gang of carpet-baggers were espe
cially 4‘ flustrated,” and Prince and Clift
put out yesterday for Washington to recti
fy things and reinstate the falling fortunes
of Skowhegan.
It is thought that a heavy and desperate
fight will come off between Prince and
Clilt, aud Morrill and other carpet-baggers
who are in Washington, and the men who
desire to act with some show of principle
and justice towards the down-trodden and
persecuted people of Georgia. I am in
formed, from reliable Republican sources,
that Bullock and the carpet-baggers are in
bad odor at the capital, and there is a
very general disposition to give them the
cold shoulder. My informant says that
Gen. Grant is becoming restive, and has
frequently expressed the wish that Georgia
should be brought back without delay.—
The next ten days will tell the whole story,
and I look with some hope for good re
sults.
In this busy, sensational town one hears
all sorts of news. I give you some of the
plans proposed for action when the Legisla
ture convenes:
Ist. It is proposed to pass a law requir
ing a test oath from all persons holding
office in Georgia, and it will be so drawn
as to exclude all persons but carpet-baggers
and runaways.
2d. It is undersnood that the Supreme
Court is to be reorganized. Warner is to
be ousted and Dawson and Walker put in
his place.
3d. Changes in the Superior Court Judges
are also to be made. It is conceded that
Judge Schley will be displaced by that
sturdy patriot aud much beloved citizen of
Savannah, a Mr. Stone, who has been dis
playing his beard about the executive head-,
quarters for the past week. This is glori
ous !
4th. Heaven aud earth, and hell if neces
sary, will be invoked to displace Dr. An
gier, for if he remains Bullock thinks re
construction a miserable sham and failure.
sth. The Opera House must be bought
or the bottom is out. All the elements of
power will be invoked to carry this iniqui
tous scheme, and every “ Bullock Demo
crat ” —and there are a dozen of this hybrid
breed in the Legislature—will be required
to do their best to carry the opera.
Since the last session, Kimball has raised
his sights, and will now want a halfmil
lioq to cover all his outlay and make any
thing by the “spec” The Opera House
aud contents will not sell in the market
for more than one hundred thousand dol
lars, but the Legislature will be asked for
five times that figure, and this is the way
the people’s money goes.
M acon and Brunswick Railroad.—At
a meeting of the stockholders, held in Ma
con, all the old officers and Directors of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad were re
elected, as follows:
George H. Hazlehurst, President; Robert
Schmidt, Master of Transportation; Henry
Cos it Day, Secretary and Treasurer.
Directors—George S. Obear, Stephen
Collins, L. N. Whittle, Charles Day, Macon,
Ga.; C. S. Dabney, J. P. Q. Foster, M. K.
Jessup, J. Milbank, New York.
[Macon 2degraph.
[From llie Charleston News.
Unto this Last.
J. J. Wright, a colored man, who sits in
the General Assembly as Senator from
Beaufort county, was elected yesterday
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
this State. Wright was bom in Pennsyl
vania, graduated at the Lancasterian Uni
versity in New York, studied law for two
years at Montrose, Pennsylvania, and was
admitted to the bar in Susquehanna coun-.
ty, being the first colored man admitted to
practice in Pennsylvania.
In 1805 he came South and was made
legal adviser of the South Carolina freed
men. He was a delegate to the Recon
struction Convention, aud was afterward
elected to the State Senate.
Wright is quiet, well behaved and de
cidedly intelligent, but neither his decency
nor his little knowledge of the law caused
his election to the highest judicial position
in the State. He was elected solely and sim
ply because he is a colored man.
The Radicals themselves, white and
black, know that Wright can not fill with
credit the position which has been dragged
down to his level. They know that before
the Supreme Court w"l come questions of
momentous importance to the people of the
State. They know that Wright, whatever
his smartness, will lie either a mere puppet
or, far woise, an obstinate ignoramus, who
will carry with him to the bench the pitiful
arts of the pettifogger. Knowing these
things, and knowing them well, the Radi
cal majority persisted in electing a man
whose only merit is the. color of his skin and
his persoual popularity. The welfare of
tlie State, and the safety of the people, are
as nothing iu comparison with the deter
mination to indulge at all hazards the
prejudice and passion of race.
Let them go on ! The more the better of
this brave work while lasts the negro car
nival.
A Vain Dream.— When the Georgia bill
was passed some of the leading men of the
State, among them Hon. Benj. H. Hill and
Judge Stephens, brother of Hon. Alexander
11.. advised the people to abstain from any
action thereunder. Other views prevailed,
the great argument being that by going to
the Legislature the Democratic members
might be able to exert a wholesome influ
ence. The result is now seen. A military
commission is now sitting in judgment oil
our “ wholesome ” friends. It is a vain
dream to suppose that Democratic partici
pation in a reconstructed Legislature can
do anything but lend some color of legality
to what would be otherwise too flagrant a
fraud to live. —Charleston News.
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and Hoarseness.
None so pleasant. None cure so quick.
Manufactured by RUBHTON A CO., Astor House,
New York.
No more of those horrible tasted, nauseating Brown
Cubeb things.
For sale by W. H. TU'TT A. LAND at Proprietors’
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COTTON STATES MECHANICAL AND AGRI
CULTURAL FAIR ASSOCIATION.
. Office, ?
Augusta, Ga., February 1, 1870. $
AT A MEETING of the Executive Committee of
this Association, held THIS DAY, an installment of
ten CIO) per cent, on the Capital Stock was ordered to
be called in.
Stockholders will please call at the office of the
Treasurer, Messrs. J. J. Cohkn a Bos, and pay their
assessment.
By oxdor of the Board. E. H (irav
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Mayor’s Office, )
Augusta, Ga., January 26th, 1870. >
From and alter this date, all purchases for account
of the city will only be made upon orders issued from
this office. J. Y. H. ALLEN,
• ian2s^ f Mayor.
DANCING CLASSES, AUGUSTA HOTEL.
PRuFB- NICHOLS A MILAM, in order to secure
certain days for the Lessons, have removed from Ma
sonic Hall to the above Hall. Classes for Ladies.
Misses and Masters on FRIDAY aud SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS, at 3)4, p. m. Classes for Gents
THURSDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGS at 8, p.
ln ' Jan2s-U
Carpets and Shades.
For a Large and Choice selection of new
Carpets and Shades, at low prices, go to
James 4S. Bailie & Brother’s.
CARPETS MADE AND LAID PROMPTLY.
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Fishing Tackle.
We have just received a
large and full assortment of all kinds of
HOOKS,
SILK, GRASS, LIKEN, HEMP ANI) COTTON
LINES,
Japan and Bamboo Poles,
Spinning and Spoon Bait, &c.
We have also had manufactured a superior
quality of HOOK, adapted to our fishing,
called here
Augusta Bream Hook,
To which we would call the attention of
those interested.
MERCHANTS will be supplied at the
very Lowest Prices.
PLUMB & LEITNER.
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AUCTION !
A. LARGE LOT OF VALUABLE
HORSES, property of the late Wm Lake,
including WAGONS, HARNESS, and the
eutire outfit of the late Lake's Hyppo-
Olyrapiad and Mammoth Circus, will be
sold AT AUCTION, at the Old Race Track,
MEMPHIS, TENN.,
On Monday, February 21$t, 1870,
Circulars, containing full details, may be
had of J. B. Pournei.ljE, Esq., Grey Eagle
Stables, Ellis street, Augusta.
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Gold Baud and White fbina Dinner,
Tea and < hutnber Ware,
JpERSONS desiring Odd Pieces, to match
up their sets, can be accommodated at 280
Broad street. E. MUBTIN.
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Flower Seed.
JUST RECEIVED, ft One assortment of
the CHOICEST FLOWER SEED. They
are from Reliable Seedsmen, and can be de
pended upon.
PLUMB & LEITNER.
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* Summer h
1870. *
RIBBONS,
MiLIJNFRY AlM> STRAW I.OODS.
_
Armstrong, Cator & Cos.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
Bonnet, Trimming and Velvet Ribbons,
Bonnet Silks, Statins anil Velve'a,
BLONDS, NETTS, CRAPES, RUCHES,
Flowers, Feathers, Ornaments,
Straw Bonnets and Ladies’ Hats,
TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED,
SHAH 10 K HOODS, <fc c.,
2117 and 239 BALTIMORE STREET,
Baltimore,
Offer the Largest Stock to be found in this
Country, uid mu quailed in choice variety and
cheapness, comprising the latest Parisian Nov
elties. ;
Orders solicited, and prompt attention given,
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An Ordinance
TO AMEND THE FOURTH SECTION OF
THE GENERAL ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF AUGUBTA.
Section I. Be it ordained by the City Council
of Auyusta, and it is hereby ordained by the au
thority of the same, That from and after the
passage of this Ordinance the Fourth Section
of the General Ordinance of the city of Augus
ta shall be amended by inserting between the
words *• any” and “ table,” in the third line of
said Section, the words ** Keno or other and
that the words “One Hundred,” iu the last
line of said Section, be stricken out, aud in lieu
thereof the words “ Two Hundred and Fifty ”
be inserted.
Sec. 11. And be it further ordained, That all
Ordinances and parts of Ordinances militating
against this Ordinance be, and the -same are
hereby repealed.
Done in Couucil, this 4th day of February,
A. D. 1870.
, J. V. H. ALLEN,
j L. U. [ Mayor C. A.
< ’ Attest: L. T. Bi.ome, C. C.
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~strayedT
BAY MARE, low in flesh, sous white
in forehead and blemish in left eye, caused by a
lick. Any person delivering her to the under
signed, or giving information that will lead to
her recovery, will be handsomely rewarded.
The Mare heard of lost near the “ Red Place,”
on Savannah Road.
POLLARD, COX & CO.,
febG-tf 273 Broad street.
XJs© Bussel Coe’s Su
perphosphate. It is the
Best.
OA.TJTION.
TIIE merits of the
Soluble Pacific iuaiio,
Manufactured by the Pacific Guano Com
pany, having been attested by so great a
number of our Planters who have used it
for the past four years, its superior excel
lence ; s no longer a matter of doubt, and
as spurious articles of the same name are
being offered for sale, I take this method of
informing the pobllc that
Pure Soluble Pacific Guano
Can not be bought in Augusta except from
myself, the only authorized Agent for its sale
in this city , and that none is genuine unless
branded John S. Reese & Cos., General
Agents, Baltimore, Md.
feb4-2w J. O. MATHEWSON.
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS.
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GREER & WILSON,
WHOLESALE and RETAIL DEALERS,
No. 376 Broad at., Augusta, Ga.,
Will keep constantly in store a full stock
of the best qualities and latest styles of BOOTS,
SHOES and HATS, which will be sold as low
as can be offered, and to which they invite the
attention of the public,
janld-daclm
Mr ß .M. A. BINDEKB,IIOI, N. W. Corner |
Eleventh and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
Old established and only Reliable Paper Pat
tern, Dress and Cloak Making Emporium.
Spring Opening of Paper Patterns March Ist,
1870. Mrs. Binder’s recent visit to Paris en
ables her to receive Fashions, Trimmiugs and
Faucy Goods superior to anything in thiscouu
try. Sets of Patterns for Merchants and Dress
Makers now ready. DRESSES and CLOAKS
made in 24 hours’ notice. TRIMMINGS,
Laces, Gloves, Ribbons, Jewelry, Fans and
Embroideries. GOFFERING MACHINES
for sale. Goods sent hv Express to all parts
of the Union. feb2-3m
DANCING ACADEMY.
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Profs. Melt and Cooper
Would solicit the attention of the public
to their Dancing Academy. Feeling as
sured that all who witness the progress
made by their . pupils, will give them
their patronage. jau3o-tf
HARDWARE !
HARDWARE! HARDWARE
■ « ■ m>U se «
John & Thos. A. Bones,
(AT THE OLD STAND)
185 Broad Street,
(ESTABLISHED liN 1813)
Take pleasure in announcing to their cus
tomers, and the public generally, that they are
sow in receipt of a very large stock of
Hardware,
I
embracing almost eves'y article known to the
trade. Their importation of
Swedes Iron
AND
Llnglish Blow Steel
This Season is unusually large. Their stock of
Table and Packet 4’utlery
Is very large, and from the best Manufacturers
— Bucli as Joseph Rodgers & Sous, George
Wostenbolm, Fred Ward, Luke Firth. Their
supply of
CARPENTERS, WHEELWRIGHTS AND
BLACKSMITHS’ TOOLS
Is very extensive.
Builders 5 Hardware,
In great variety.
Plantation Supplies,
Such as AXES, HOES, CHAINS, PLOWS, of
the best brands and iu great variety.
All of the above are of the Best Quality, and
offered for sale at the
Lowest Market Hates.
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First Price-Sliver flip--at Georgia
State Fair.
o
STEWART’S
CELEBRATED AIR-TIGHT
COOKING STOVEj,
WITH
13limping Grrato.
THE STEWART COOKING STOVE,
Which has hitherto maintained an acknowl
edged superiority over all competitors, is now
introduced to the public with the addition of a
DUMPING GRATE and ASH DRAWER. In
Coint of Economy and General Utility, it has
een conceded that tbe Stewart Stove is
AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS.
By this addition of the NEW DUMPING
GRATE, the heating surface of the oven is
greatly increased, and the capacity of the flues
nearly doubled. The Btove can never have a
defective draft, and no dust can escape while
cleaning or dumping Lhe grate. All parts of
the oven bake alike. The oven is ventilated in
a manner entirely new, and by means of which
the oveu is more quickly prepared for baking,
and the baking is better done than ever before.
The Fire Box has the Perforated Iron Lin
ings and cannot burn out.
EVERY STOVE WARRANTED, and for
sale by
W. H. GOODRICH & SON,
265 Broad street,
janl'3-3m Augusta, Ga.
Hardware, Cutlery,
Stoves, Tin and Wood Ware.
WILLIAM HILL
"EsegS to anuouuce to bis old friends and
customers, and the citizens of Augusta and
vicinity, that he has Removed bis business
from Hamburg, S. C., to the Store, 193 Broad
| street, Augusta, Ga., De::l door above the Con
stitutionalist Office, where he has a full stock
of HARDWARE, consisting of—
AXES, HOES, SPADES, SHOVELS
MANURE FORKB, RAKES
BLACKSMITH TOOLS
BAR IRON, STEEL, NAILS
HORSE and MULE SHOES
OVENS?POTS and SPIDERS
HINGES, SCREWS
POCKET and TABLE CUTLERY
SAWS, AUGURS, CHISELS, Ac., &c.
ALSO,
WOODEN WARE, eilch as BUCKETS,
TUBS, CHURNB, PAILS, Ac.
COOKING STOVES, of various patterns of
modern make, and warranted to cook well;
also, HEATING STOVES.
He also offers a full assortment of TIN
WARE, which he manufactures in all its varie
ties, at wholesale and retail. TIN and SHEET
IRON MANUFACTURED to order, and job
bing promptly done in best manner.
1 respectfully solicit a share of public pa-,
tronage. WILLIAM HILL,
janl t-ts 193 Broad street, Angnßta, Ga.
Buy the Best Super
phosphate of Lime —
feussel Coe’s.
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"Special Bargains
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JUS 1. GRAY k CO.;
238 BROAD STREET.
o
Gent’s Linen Hemstitched Handler
chiefs, one and two inch hem, from SB {yj
per dozen to Extra Fine.
Nottingham Lace Curtains, entirely
patterns.
We are closing out our Dress Trimraino
at Cost. -A.ll Colors in lieversible Satin Pleat
ing and Mohair Braids Box Quilling.
.All kinds of Linen Groods at Cost.
Bordered Huckaback Towels, Damask
Towels, Superior Quality Linen Doylies,
Choice Assortment Wool and Kelt Piano a r
Table Covers, at
JAMES A. GRAY & CO S
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ANNUAL STATEMENT
OF THE
GEORGIA ROHE INSURANCE C«.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA,
INCORPORATED 1859 CAPITAL, $350000 j
anuary 1,1870, $468,071 42,
Receipts and Disbursetn-nts for Twelve Months ending January 1,1870T~
RECEIPTS. f DISBURSEMENTS
Preiniums $229,001 30 j Losses j
Interest.:... 10,920 67 J Reinsurance and Return Premiums*. 106* : j
I Commissions to Ageota ’ o t 1
$239,921 97 Taxes and all other expenses 3905“ ’
Balance from January 1,1569 44,657 00 ; Balance January 1,1870 ’ ’ TANARUS,
$284,578 97 | I
DIVIDEND TO HOLDERS OF PARTICIPATING POLICIES, 25 PER^E^T^
: The above statement exhibits, in a manner moet b;. I
teriDK ’ ,he trowing prospects of the above nice, j
Com pan;,. Since the close of the war the Comjmybj j
.If O tP \ paid out. over $300,000 for losses. With acontia I
/ fcj o .1 increMil s autonnt ol assets, it presents its claims torp. I
I Yj P Jtronage :o the public. Apply to
I */ A * Agent,
Broad Strest,
AUOO3IA ' G 1
w. H. GOODRICH, • GEO. E. GOODRICH
W. H. GOODRICH & SON,
265 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
STOVES, ORATES, TIN WM
And House Furnishing Goods of all Kinds,
TO WHICH WE WOULD CALL TilE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC.
The Celebrated Cooking Stove “ Olive Branch. 1 1
THE FAVORITE COOKING STOVE “ HENRY CUY,”
room.
Its Fire Back is very heavy, and
constructed so as not to burn out
very readily. jSujwlv|j §PfL*^
or detached at pleasure.
We have also the PREMIUM, or STEP STOVE, and HEATING STOVES, inF 8 * 4 1
varieties. We would call special attention to our fine assortment of GRATES.
Mr. E. E. SCOFIELD, long and favorabl} known in this line, will be found with ®. II
and will have charge of the Mechanical Department.
Our facilities for HOOFING and Gb'T |
TERING are unsurpassed*
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FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
OF SUPERIOR QUALITY.
« invite the attention of the citi
zens of Augusta and vicinity to a large
stock of the above Goods, Just opened.
In Quality and Style, they are unsur
passed by any House in the United State*.
James G. Bailie A Brother.
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NOTICE.
We have this day associated with ns Mr.
L. A. R. REAB in the Grocery and Commis
sion Business.
FLEMING A STAPLEB.
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Thankful for past favors, we hope, by
promptness and a strict attention to business,
to merit a liberal share in the future.
FLEMING, STAPLES A CO.
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DESIRABLE SECURITIES
FOR SALE.
THE attention of parties having funds to
invest is invited to the MORTGAGE BONDS
of the MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD
COMPANY.
These BONDS bear Seven per cent, interest
—coudohs payable January and July—have
ten vears to run, and are GUARANTEED,
nrincipal and interest, BY THE GEORGIA
RAILROAD AND BANKING COMPANY,
and authorized by the Legislature of the State
of Georgia.
Inquire of
J. A. 8. MILLIGAN, Treasurer,
At Georgia Railroad Bank.
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Marbleized Slate Mantel*
RICH AND ELEGANT DESIGNS-
More durable and at half the price of
Carefully packed and shipped to any pV- jj
the country. Send lor circular.
T. B. STEP/ART A CO., I
jan3o-3m 605 Sixth Ave., New |
MARY ANN BUIE INSTifU 1 "
FOR YOUNG LADIES.
At Whitesville, (No. 3, Central Bailrocu: l - u
Commences January, isto.
First Term ends in JUNE, 1870.
For particulars, apply to
Miss MARY ANN BUIE.
[ jac2o-tf Wbitesville, No. SOR^
. WANTED,
A. PLANTATION of from 200 10 SK>-''
convenient to this city or railroads. v
well adapted for Cotton and Grain, *‘ l “
provemeuts and necessary Woodland.
Apply by letter, giving full description tl
deell-tf P. O. BOX NU*^
Exemption of Personalty-
o
RICHMOND COUNTY:
Obdimakt’s Orrio* roe i
Acocbta, February ' (
Mobt. A. Harper having applied for je. u>
aenalty, I will pass upon tha sane » t
Augusta, on Wednesday, the 18th day of
next, at 10 o’clock, a. m. thi* * ,k
Given under my hand and oflical aignat
diiy of February, 1870. SAMUEL LEVY.
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